Level 1 of the stairway looks at exactly what the technologies "Always On", "Failover Cluster Instance" (FCI) and "Windows Server Failover Cluster" are. We'll look at each in detail and summarize where in the High Availability stack they sit.
In this new level of the stairway, we examine the storage knowledge you need for an Always On configuration.
In this next level of the Stairway to Always On, we will look at the components required to implement a Windows Server Failover Cluster.
In level 6 of this stairway, we will look deeper into Availability Groups and how to set them up along with a Listener.
In Level 7 of this stairway, we look at combining Availability Groups with FCIs for both HA and DR protection.
this article details how to segregate the mirror traffic in an Always On group configuration
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On SQL Server 2025, I have a database that has this collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. I decide I want to run this code:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C*3068 and good night', '*') AS 'A Classic';
I get this error:Msg 9844, Level 16, State 4, Line 24 The char/varchar input type uses an unsupported collation. Only a UTF8 collation is supported with char/varchar input type in UNISTR function.What is the easiest way to fix this error? See possible answers